Lambton Le Breton Mount (12 March 1836 – 12 June 1931) was a Canadian-born Australian businessman. He is credited with introducing the sport of lacrosse to Australia. In 1853, Mount emigrated from the Province of Canada to the

Colony of Victoria The Colony of Victoria was a historical administrative division in Australia that existed from 1851 until 1901, when it federated with other colonies to form the Commonwealth of Australia. Situated in the southeastern corner of the Australian ...

with other family members. During the early 1860s, he was a well-known athlete,

running Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion by which humans and other animals move quickly on foot. Running is a gait with an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground (though there are exceptions). This is in contrast to walkin ...

against H. C. A. Harrison in a series of foot races. In 1866, with his brother Frank and the poet

Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, write ...

, Mount migrated to

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, where they were business partners in an unsuccessful sheep farm at Balingup. The Mounts were also early settlers in the

north west Western Australia The North West, North West Coast, North Western Australia and North West Australia, are usually informal names for the northern regions of the State of Western Australia. However, some conceptions of "North West Australia" have included adjoi ...

and held a

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on the

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, between 1866 and 1868. They then returned to Victoria. Mount imported forty lacrosse sticks in 1876, an initiative that led to the first match of lacrosse held in Australia, at Albert Park. The sport grew quickly and within two years, the Victorian Lacrosse Association had 120 members. In his later years, Mount was prominent as a manufacturer of glass bottles in Melbourne. He became president of the

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and was on the Commission for the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888.

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Australian lacrosse players People from the Colony of Victoria Canadian emigrants to Australia Province of Canada people 1836 births 1931 deaths 19th-century Australian sportsmen 19th-century Australian businesspeople {{Lacrosse-bio-stub

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